EX-PRIME MINISTER'S SON.
How Mr. Alister G. Mac Donald, elder son oft Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, worked as a builders' labourer during his holidays in order to gain practical experience as":in architect was recently revealed. Mr. Mac Donald, who, in spite of his father's known pacifist beliefs, served for 2£ years in France during the war, took a post-war course of srchitecture at Lon don University, and was awarded the Donaldson Medal, givan to the best allround student of tne year While his university friends spent their vacations holiday-making, young Mac Donald, determined to learn his job thoroughly, hired himself out ns a labourer, without giving a hint of his real name. Now he is to supervise the creation of Britain's Hollywood at Wembley.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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124EX-PRIME MINISTER'S SON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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